Example sentences of "[is] that [pron] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid the fact is that we had the finest guitarist in the world and we did n't recognise it . |
| 2 | We remember the dazzling tries of Gareth Edwards , Gerald Davies and the rest but what tends to be forgotten is that they needed the Welsh forwards to pulverise their opponents into submission first . |
| 3 | The reason I single out the engineers rather than the commentators or the producers is that they ensured the best pictures of the University Boat Race ever seen , as well as the usual smooth coverage of the Grand National . |
| 4 | The significance of My Lai is that it threatened the American national myth — that of moral superiority . |
| 5 | A SURPRISING aspect of the first British performance of Sofia Gubaidulina 's Violin Concerto , subtitled Offertorium , is that it provoked the odd walk-out in Birmingham Town Hall . |
| 6 | A SURPRISING aspect of the first British performance of Sofia Gubaidulina 's Violin Concerto , subtitled Offertorium , is that it provoked the odd walk-out from one or two places in Birmingham Town Hall . |
| 7 | One of the things Namibia 's new president must accept is that he lacked the two-thirds majority in the constituent assembly he would have needed to push through plans supported only by his party , SWAPO . |
| 8 | The likelihood is that he saw the decisive disadvantages of Curzon but could not quite reconcile himself to the thought of the very junior Baldwin , who had so recently ‘ bounced ’ and damaged him over the debt settlement , being in 10 Downing Street . |
| 9 | But his main qualification for cleaning up Argentina 's economic mess is that he did the same job ( rather badly ) in a short-lived government a quarter of a century ago . |